Then why do you actively argue against it? Claiming that genderqueer people suffer from a psychological condition doesn't seem particularly in-step with the position I stated.
What I object to is the claim that you somehow dismiss the generalities of behavior of each gender, as if to claim that any differences between genders are simply the result of individual choices. It is quite clear, as you admit, that men will tend to behave in a masculine way, and women in a feminine. That occasionally there are exceptions proves nothing more than that humans have sentience and can choose to behave as they wish, even to resist their biological natures. One may easily argue that it is in my biological nature, as a male pumped with testosterone, to behave aggressively and competitively against other males, constantly challenging them, yet you will not find me bruised by fights.
It goes deeper than mere formal economic and legal equality there's a whole range of deeply rooted social and culture inequality (which harms men, as well as women). There's more to it than pay-cheques and child-care.
History has demonstrated that societies are easily manipulated by political and economic forces. (Some have argued that they are the determinants of social forces.) In the US, it was only a generation ago acceptable to openly display one's bigotry, but a series of laws made such treatment forbidden, with the result, in a generation, that there is considerably less racism socially as well. In a more ominous note, Nazi Germany made its brand of bigotry the prevailing function in far less than a generation, by enforcing the Nuremberg Laws.
My point was that one cannot conflate cissexual forms of gender non-conformity with transexuality, which has it's own very particular details.
Peculiar is right.
That is not what "experience" means. You may as well suggest that the Civil Rights movement was based on a false perception of racism because the Nation of Islam had a warped world view.
I only assert that not all experience deserve equal recognition. There is also hallucinatory experience, for one.
My point was that, if you seek social justice for trans, genderqueer and gender non-conforming people, you can't simply dismiss their experiences as the result of a psychosocial disorder. That is not a progressive attitude.
I had no idea we were talking of justice.
As I said, hormones are indeed heavily influenced by genetics, but that does not mean that it is down to genetics per se; as I said, both the inconsistency of hormonal production with both sex and the ability of humans to intervene in hormonal production and the resulting anatomical development go some way to disrupting the traditional belief in biological determinism, but demonstrating that anatomical sex is not the neat binary that we imagine it to be.
Not a lot of knowledge of biology there. There's quite a difference in endocrinology between males and females, and believe me, it makes a big difference in behavior as a result. PMS doesn't occur in males. Granted, it doesn't occur in all females either, but I think you see the point. And there is research to support the notion that "biological determinism" helps explain homosexuality, in that a certain region of the hypothalamus differs in homosexual men in a matter analogous to that of hetero women. That would make sense, because the nucleus that regulates sexual attraction is located in the hypothalamus. Or what did you think motivated homosexuality or heterosexuality? People just randomly deciding, on a whim, to go one way or another? Yes, you will find all sorts of variations, because humans are sentient, and make choices that can be contradictory to biology, but we don't need a whole sphere of study to discover that people make choices.
